Louis-Philippe Dalembert, a poet, writer, and former guest of honor at Livres en folie, received the prestigious Prix Goncourt for Poetry for his entire body of work on May 14, 2024. A significant portion of Dalembert's work is inspired by his native land, Haiti.

Le Nouvelliste hereby publishes one of his poems, "Bel-Air." In it, the poet depicts the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of the same name, recognizable only to the eldest readers. It's an invitation into a time that the poet misses as much as we do, and he masterfully recreates it, making it vivid, gentle, dressing it in the dreams of our childhoods, our exiles, our yearnings for return. A distilled happiness from noise, misfortunes to sublimate the necessity of sharing.